10. Non-fatal offences against the person

Criminal Law ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 413-458
Author(s):  
Michael J. Allen ◽  
Ian Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Hate Crime ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Body Modification ◽  
Recent Case ◽  
Bodily Harm ◽  
Hate Crime Legislation ◽  
Grievous Bodily Harm ◽  
The Law ◽  
Crime Legislation ◽  
Assault And Battery

Course-focused and comprehensive, the Textbook on series provides an accessible overview of the key areas on the law curriculum. This chapter discusses the main non-fatal offences involving violence against the person. Non-fatal offences include assault and battery, assault occasioning actual bodily harm, wounding and inflicting grievous bodily harm, wounding or causing grievous bodily harm with intent, administering poison, and offences related to explosive substances and corrosive fluids (including offences related to ‘acid attacks’). The chapter analyses in detail consent as a defence to non-fatal offences against the person, including discussion of recent case law on whether consent is a defence to acts of ‘body modification’. The chapter also outlines necessity and lawful correction. The chapter’s Law in Context feature examines the scope of ‘hate crime’ legislation.

10. Non-fatal offences against the person

2021 ◽  
pp. 421-467
Author(s):  
Michael J. Allen ◽  
Ian Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
Hate Crime ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Recent Case ◽  
Bodily Harm ◽  
Hate Crime Legislation ◽  
Grievous Bodily Harm ◽  
The Law ◽  
Crime Legislation ◽  
Assault And Battery

Course-focused and contextual, Criminal Law provides a succinct overview of the key areas on the law curriculum balanced with thought-provoking contextual discussion. This chapter discusses the main non-fatal offences involving violence against the person. Non-fatal offences include assault and battery, assault occasioning actual bodily harm, wounding and inflicting grievous bodily harm, wounding or causing grievous bodily harm with intent, administering poison, and offences related to explosive substances and corrosive fluids (including offences related to ‘acid attacks’). The chapter analyses in detail consent as a defence to non-fatal offences against the person, including discussion of recent case law on whether consent is a defence to acts of ‘body modification’. The chapter also outlines necessity and lawful correction. The chapter’s ‘The Law in Context’ feature examines the scope of ‘hate crime’ legislation.

16. Non-fatal offences against the person

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Ormerod ◽  
Karl Laird
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Bodily Harm ◽  
Grievous Bodily Harm ◽  
The Law ◽  
Prevention Of Crime ◽  
Assault And Battery

This chapter focuses on non-fatal offences against the person, including assault and battery, wounding and inflicting grievous bodily harm, poisoning offences, kidnapping, harassment, possession and use of offensive weapons. The chapter also discusses defences to assault and battery including consent, and lawful chastisement, in addition to the Law Commission’s Report on reforming offences against the person. The discussion includes a detailed analysis of the relevant statutory offences including the Offences Against the Person Act 1861, the Protection from Harassment Act 1997, and the Prevention of Crime Act 1953. It also considers racially or religiously aggravated versions of the relevant offences.

16. Non-fatal offences against the person

2021 ◽  
pp. 689-785
Author(s):  
David Ormerod ◽  
Karl Laird
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Bodily Harm ◽  
Coercive Control ◽  
Grievous Bodily Harm ◽  
The Law ◽  
Assault And Battery

This chapter focuses on non-fatal offences against the person, including assault and battery, wounding and inflicting grievous bodily harm, poisoning offences, kidnapping, harassment and possession and use of offensive weapons. The chapter also discusses defences to assault and battery including consent and lawful chastisement, in addition to the Law Commission’s Report on reforming offences against the person. The discussion includes a detailed analysis of the relevant statutory offences including the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 and the Protection from Harassment Act 1997. It also considers coercive control as well as racially or religiously aggravated versions of the relevant offences.

10. Non-fatal offences against the person

Criminal Law ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Allen ◽  
Ian Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Bodily Harm ◽  
Grievous Bodily Harm ◽  
The Law ◽  
Assault And Battery

Course-focused and comprehensive, the Textbook on series provides an accessible overview of the key areas on the law curriculum. This chapter discusses the main non-fatal offences involving violence against the person. Non-fatal offences include assault and battery, wounding and inflicting grievous bodily harm, wounding or causing grievous bodily harm with intent, and administering poison.

Formulating the legislative structure of a hate crime

2021 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Schweppe
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Hate Crime ◽  
Fundamental Question ◽  
Law Reform ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Hate Crime Legislation ◽  
Reform Processes ◽  
Crime Legislation ◽  
Legislative Structure ◽  
Statutory Basis

While hate crime legislation is well established in England and Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland, Ireland has failed to address the issue of hate crime on a statutory basis. Law reform processes are currently underway across these jurisdictions, and this article seeks to explore a fundamental question in this context, that is, the relative merits of various approaches to structuring hate crime legislation.

scope of that design and used the extreme violence which was intended to cause grievous bodily harm or death. The judge’s direction in the appellant’s case did not deal with that situation (or with) the appropriate verdict of not guilty should the jury find the second and/or third defendant went beyond what was contemplated by the appellant. On the facts of the case there were only two verdicts open to the jury, guilty or not guilty of murder. If, as the Crown contended, she was a party to an agreement to kill, she was guilty of murder. If she was a party to an agreement to inflict some harm, short of grievous bodily harm, then she was guilty of neither murder nor manslaughter. The victim’s killing and the manner of the killing could not be within the ambit of the agreement to which the appellant was a party, if the ambit was confined on her part to an intention that only some harm should befall the deceased, albeit not death or really serious injury. The issues involved could not be distinguished from those adumbrated by Widgery LJ in Lovesey and Peterson (1969) 53 Cr App R 461. The judge failed to remind the jury of the law as laid down in Anderson and Morris (1966) 50 Cr App R 216 and followed in Lovesey and Peterson (1969) 53 Cr App R 461. The result of that non-direction was that the jury returned a verdict which was not open to them. R v Stewart and Schofield [1995] 3 All ER 159 (CA)

1996 ◽  
pp. 408-424
Keyword(s):  
Bodily Harm ◽  
Grievous Bodily Harm ◽  
Extreme Violence ◽  
The Law ◽  
Serious Injury
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